Dorian Leljak studied with Arbo Valdma and Boris Berman (DMA, Yale University) and has won several international piano competitions (Rachmaninov Competition, Novi Sad Piano Competition....) and been awarded numerous prizes, including the Novi Sad University Merit Prize and the Mary Clapp Howell, Irving Gilmore and Parisot prizes from Yale University. He enjoys a fruitful career throughout the world as a soloist and as a guest concertoist with major European and international ensembles. A keen chamber musician, he plays regularly with cellist Istvan Varga and pianist Ninoslav Zivkovic. In 2002, he made his debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Boston Philharmonia Hall. After teaching at the Yale School of Music, Dorian Leljak holds a professorship at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (Serbia) and is regularly invited to the Royal College of Music of London for masterclasses or as a competition jury member. 

 He is frequently invited to serve as a jury member at international piano competitions such as the Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Tromsø World Piano Competition, Parnassos Monterey, Young Musicians Enschede, Scriabin Grosseto, Fausto Zadra, Neue Sterne Wernigerode, Carl Filtsch Sibiu, Spanish Composers Las Rozas, Euregio Geilenkirchen, Baltic Gdansk, Rotary Xàbia, Monopoli Barletta and the Chopin Competition in Rome. Dorian Leljak is president of the World Piano Teachers‘ Association (WPTA), president of the World Piano Conference (WPC), president of the WPTA International Piano Competition (WPTA IPC), honorary president of the European Piano Teachers’ Association (EPTA Voyvodina), artistic director of the Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition, executive director of the Panopticum Musicum/Musica Ricercata music schools and representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London for South-East Europe.